How To Use Colostomy In A Sentence
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You don't need to have had a colostomy to find yourself toeing the line.
PROSPECT HILL
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Fancy taking a flutter on incontinence pads and colostomy bags?
Times, Sunday Times
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For Andrea, the diagnosis meant a complete overhaul of her lifestyle and the prospect of a colostomy bag.
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The same day, Ruth Sherman, 88, of Sunrise, Florida, was asked about a visible protrusion from her waist band, which she identified as her colostomy bag.
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More than 40 percent of patients with colostomy report sexual problems such as dyspareunia or erectile dysfunction.
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The man, who was stripped to the waist and bearing an open wound from a colostomy bag which had been pulled off, was eventually returned to the hospital.
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A colostomy diverts stool into an appliance attached to the skin, thereby eliminating leakage of stool from the rectum.
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On day four, he was scheduled for a colon resection, liver biopsy, and possible colostomy.
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Alex has been thrust into a more active role as a caregiver, which he's rather gracefully accepting, except for anything involving the colostomy bag.
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A long segment of sigmoid colon was resected, and a temporary colostomy was performed.
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And one thing that they do sometimes -- excuse me, a little bit of throat congestion -- they actually sometimes will divert some of the intestine into a bag -- it's called a colostomy bag -- so that actually the intestine gets a chance to heal, the abdominal cavity gets a chance to heal while that suture line is fixing itself.
CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2007
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If abdominal or perineal areas are affected, the patient may require a colostomy or urinary diversion.
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After the entire necrotized bowel was resected, jejunostomy and sigmoid colostomy were performed.
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One thing that helps in a situation like this -- and he may have had this done, it's hard to know for sure -- is actually to create what's known as a colostomy bag.
CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2007
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Eventually with his Crohn's, he was probably going to need a colostomy bag fitted.
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One patient underwent neoplasty of the colon, another a partial resection of colon, six a neoplasty of the colon plus sigmoid colostomy, and two underwent Hartmann surgery.
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For some patients, especially those with rectal tumours, the diagnosis of cancer is also accompanied by the necessity for either colostomy or ileostomy.
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Doctors had to perform a colostomy, rerouting the undamaged intestinal tract to a substitute opening in her lower abdomen.
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Mucosal atrophy may result when dietary sources of fatty acids are lacking or when the fecal stream is diverted by an ileostomy or colostomy.
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The cavity is irrigated daily with mild antiseptic solution, and drainage from the tubes can be collected in a colostomy bag.
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The specialists even wanted to operate and give me a colostomy bag.
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There were representatives of colostomy groups, urostomy groups and ileostomy groups at Bridgend.
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Appendectomy, colectomy, all types of hernia procedures, and colostomy reversal accounted for the next most prevalent errors in classification.
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Objectives To explore the clinical effects for peritoneal colostomy in the treatment of anorectum carcinoma.
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The nurse gives dietary advice to minimise bowel problems and looks after the care of the colostomy opening on the abdominal wall, together with the health of the surrounding skin to which the colostomy bag is attached.
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Women who cannot return to their villages because their injuries are too severe to be repaired are fitted with stomas and rely on urostomy or colostomy bags.
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He'd thought it was something you could be drily adult about, the way Mr Thomas had been adult about Mr Cartwright's colostomy.
PROSPECT HILL
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Then he underwent a second surgery, spent more than three weeks in the hospital, and returned home wearing a colostomy bag.
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A colostomy was performed in an attempt to relieve her large bowel symptoms, and subsequently closed.
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An IV needle was planted in his forearm, and a chemotherapy port gaped in his chest; he had a urinary catheter, a colostomy, a bedsore, a surgical wound, and, for all I know, a fish bone stuck in his throat.
Beginner’s Grace
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When I came round I had a colostomy bag and was told I had cancer.
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As a result surgeons performed a colostomy, where an incision is made into the colon creating an artificial opening or stoma to the exterior of the abdomen.
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She was so badly hurt that doctors had to perform a colostomy to allow her body parts to heal.
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The Colostomy Association, which has headquarters in East Street, held its annual open day with talks from author, broadcaster and one-time ostomate Virginia Ironside, as well as a lecture by Professor Bill Heald MBE, a colorectal surgeon.
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On Saturday night, shortly after the incident, doctors performed a colostomy on the little girl.
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On good days I thought: my colostomy is my badge of honour, my medal of flesh.
A better woman
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He has designed smart, comfortable and very practical trousers for men and women who have to live with a colostomy bag.
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He did not need chemotherapy and with the help of colostomy bag could live a normal life.
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She told me this while I was in the hospital with ulcerative colitis I was very close to having a colostomy done.
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Perhaps I never went through this phase as a kid, but coprolalia has never been my colostomy bag...
Golden Globes!
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However, he later needed a full colostomy in February and had a cut from his stomach to his groin.
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Examples of advanced laparoscopic procedures include splenectomies, colostomy takedowns, colectomies, and Nissen fundoplications.
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That this inference is correct is shown by the fact that the application of a thermocautery to the intestines when completing a colostomy in a conscious patient is absolutely painless.
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An engineer to the core, George once showed me in excruciating detail exactly how his colostomy bag functioned.
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He sustained horrific internal and external injuries, including a crushed pelvis, blood clots on his brain and had the ignominy of walking around with a colostomy bag for the next four years.
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Occasionally, an ileostomy or colostomy can prolapse or become narrowed, so blocking the passage of faeces.
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However, Anthony will have to be fitted with a colostomy bag to prevent any further damage to his liver and down the road will probably have to have a liver transplant.
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The word colostomy is derived from Greek: ‘kolon’ which means large bowel, ‘stoumon’ which means to provide an opening, and ‘tome’ which means a cutting operation.
A better woman
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During a routine physician visit, she reports trouble with her colostomy pouch, which slides off and will not adhere to her peristomal skin.
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If there is a colostomy, a colostomy nurse will give advice and answer questions about how to look after it.
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Mucosal atrophy may result when dietary sources of fatty acids are lacking or when the fecal stream is diverted by an ileostomy or colostomy.
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Trevor had answered something strange: `Would you still love me if I had to have a colostomy ?
PROSPECT HILL
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In young children, depending on how much bowel was removed, ileostomy or colostomy is often a temporary condition that can later be reversed with another operation.
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The cavity is irrigated daily with mild antiseptic solution, and drainage from the tubes can be collected in a colostomy bag.
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A colostomy is your large bowel brought to the surface of your skin, cut open.
A better woman
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She was also born with an incomplete anus and had to have a colostomy bag until she was two.
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‘I go in every year for a check-up,’ he said, ‘and the doctors said they could reverse my colostomy.’
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Their bodies are pear-shaped and slack, and scarred from surgeries; one man wears a colostomy bag.
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Those like myself who have undergone colostomy, ileostomy or other similar procedures require, as a matter of daily routine, amenities appropriate to our needs.
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A colostomy involves diverting the route of the bowel through a hole in the abdomen, with a bag to collect the faeces.
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Some sufferers may also find themselves fitted with ileostomy or colostomy bags.
The Sun
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If it was cancer, a hysterectomy and possibly a colostomy might be called for.
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It is believed the arrested man was originally brought to hospital to have a colostomy wound attended to.
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Methods: To divide 108 patients with colostomy into two groups at random. 54 cases of them were given lavation by balloon irrigator, and the other 54 cases given routine nursing.
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She now has an ileostomy bag, which is like a colostomy bag.
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